How do I…
Set a sheet's floor
Give a sheet its Floor, floor-to-floor and ceiling heights and a Building, so cable lengths between sheets can be estimated.
Where to find it: open the project › Properties (right edge, nothing selected) › Sheet › Floor
- Go to the sheet and click an empty spot on the drawing so nothing is selected.
- Open Properties on the right edge and choose the Sheet tab. Faster: click the line above the sheet with its name and paper size.
- Under Floor, choose the sheet's floor: Basement, the 1st floor, the 2nd and so on, or Not a floor for a site plan or a detail. In a European workspace the floor at ground level is the Ground floor.
- Floor to floor and Ceiling height show the project's heights in grey. Type a height to give this sheet its own; empty the field to follow the project's again.
- For a job with more than one building, type its Building. Leave it empty otherwise. A cable never runs from one building to a rack or panel in another: its length shows "—" and asks you to send it to a rack or panel in its own building, with a backbone cable between the racks and panels. Once one sheet of a job names a Building, a sheet left empty is not taken for any building: a cable between the two asks you to set that sheet's Building.
Each change is one undo step. Once a floor is chosen it is changed, not taken away.
Cables between sheets are estimated only when both sheets have a floor; a cable on one sheet needs none. The project's own heights are in the Cabling tab's Project settings, behind its gear; see Set up racks and panels.
See also: Floor, place a riser.